[Ruby] Some Ruby Before Christmas

[Daevid Vincent]

http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000149


Some Ruby Before Christmas

By  <http://www.linuxjournal.com/user/801137> Pat Eyler on Sat, 2006-12-23
16:30. 

'Twas the Saturday before Christmas and throughout Ruby-land
hackers were working, refact'ring by hand.
Their programs were written with the greatest of care
in hopes that a new VM soon would be there.
The newsgroup was still, the irc channels too
In light of the quiet, what's a blogger to do?
When up on the mail list, there arose such a clatter
I sprang to my laptop to see what was the matter.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear
but a great bunch of news before the New Year.

Well, Clement Clark Moore I'm not, but this has been a great couple of weeks
for Ruby, and those of us who enjoy it: 


*	 <http://code.fallingsnow.net/rubinius/repository/browse> rubinius
(the smalltalk inspired VM written by  <http://blog.fallingsnow.net/> Evan
Phoenix and a host of others) is moving fast and is drawing a lot of
interest from Ruby-fans everywhere. 

*	Not to be outdone,  <http://www.jruby.org/> Jruby (Ruby on the JVM
from  <http://headius.blogspot.com/> Charles Nutter,
<http://www.bloglines.com/blog/ThomasEEnebo> Thomas Enobo, and a large and
active group of contributors) has just
<http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/2006/12/10/JRuby+0.9.2+released!>
released version 0.9.2 

*	 <http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/> Mongrel (the super fast, super
secure Ruby webserver) is sitting on the cusp of a 1.0 release thanks to the
work of  <http://www.zedshaw.com/> Zed Shaw and his cohorts. 

*	 <http://www.rubyinside.com/> RubyInside published a
<http://www.rubyinside.com/advent2006/> Ruby Advent Calendar 

*
<http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/12/04/another-dos-vulnerability-in-cg
i-library/> Ruby 1.8.5 p2 was released in response to a security
vulnerability. 

*	Ruby development has
<http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2006/12/22/cvs-repository-moved-to-svn/>
moved from the old cvs base to a  <http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/> new
SVN repository 

*	 <http://www.mrneighborly.com/> Jeremy McAnally has announced that
he's releasing his  <http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/> Humble Little
Ruby Book for free as a Christmas gift to the Ruby community. 

I hope you're looking forward to a great 2007, full of Ruby goodness. Have a
happy holiday season.